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[QUOTE="OttoMets, post: 1044968, member: 716"]
I get the overall sense that this is more an "against expectations" ranking rather than the "best teams" list Waters claims it to be, but he's still inconsistent within that criterion, too. Ranking the 2000 team behind the 2013 team is weird ([url]http://www.syracuse.com/orangebasketball/index.ssf/2014/05/syracuses_1999-00_won_the_big_east_and_advanced_to_the_sweet_16_no_8.html[/url]).

He's just all over the place with this list. What matters in judging one team (on 2004: "the loss to a very good" [are you kidding me?] "Alabama team hardly diminishes what this team accomplished" [which was lose eight of 31 games, finish third in the Big East, and get upset by Boston College in the first round) doesn't apply to others (2005 and 1991, which, respectively, won the Big East Tournament and won the Big East regular season while racking up excellent records and not getting dinged by bad teams; first-round NCAA losses, however, do diminish what those teams accomplished).

Of course his bosses want this to inspire discussion, and of course any list is subjective and open to dispute, but it would be nice to see some consistency and a clarification about exactly what he's ranking (best teams he's seen? best overall accomplishments? best success against expectations?).
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